{"id":2259,"date":"2022-03-23T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/?page_id=2259"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:02:03","slug":"sspssr-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/sspssr-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Career Mentoring &#8211; Applications Open Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Information For Students<\/h1>\n<p>Kent Career Mentoring is a career mentoring programme that pairs Kent alumni with second and third year undergraduate students, as well as postgraduate students, to help them gain an insight into professional life.<\/p>\n<p>Mentors help students to develop their knowledge and professional skills, which ensures that students begin their journey into the professional world with a solid foundation of knowledge.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits for students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Get valuable career support, advice and encouragement from an established professional<\/li>\n<li>Learn from the experiences of others<\/li>\n<li>Explore your chosen industry, sector or role<\/li>\n<li>Get job search, application and interview guidance<\/li>\n<li>Identify goals and establish a sense of direction<\/li>\n<li>Develop employability skills and grow in confidence<\/li>\n<li>Improve your communication and personal skills<\/li>\n<li>Establish and build connections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>When will mentoring take place?<\/h2>\n<p>Kent Career Mentoring takes place over 6 months (September 2022 \u00a0\u2013 March 2023) with students speaking with their mentors at least once per month (meetings can be virtual, by phone or in person).<\/p>\n<p>If successful, you must be able to<strong> commit to a minimum of 6x conversations with your mentor<\/strong> during the six month programme.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Eligibility \u2013 who can apply<\/h2>\n<p>The programme is open to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current stage 1 and stage 2 undergraduate students (who will be starting stage 2 and stage 3 respectively, in September 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 students going on to do a Kent postgraduate course in September 2022<\/li>\n<li>Kent postgraduate students who will graduate after February 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students from the following schools are eligible to apply:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3>To Apply please complete the below form and return to <a href=\"mailto:lssjemployability@kent.ac.uk\">lssjemployability@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/files\/2022\/05\/SSPSSR-Mentoring-Mentee-application-form.docx\">SSPSSR Mentoring Mentee application form<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information For Students Kent Career Mentoring is a career mentoring programme that pairs Kent alumni with second and third year undergraduate students, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/sspssr-mentoring\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77932,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2259\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}